Wheezl
07-10-2004, 02:56 AM
Im new to this area of the forum, so Im sure this has been previously discussed...
My general thoughts on the subject are to play very tightly at first and only risk major amounts of chips while the blinds are "small" on relatively certain situations. Usually my experience is that there are at least 3-5 idiots who will gamble it up real early, and if you are fortunate enough to get the cards agaisnt them it works out great.
Once the blinds get up to like 100-200 I begin to play very aggressively and steal many blinds/pots. This seems to work well because if I havent been getting many cards players tend to respect the fact that Im betting all in all of the sudden. I think there are a large percentage of players who play too loosely early (obviously), but I also think there are a great deal of tight players who fail to properly adjust to the SKYROCKETING size of the blinds compared to stack sizes. Most of the time the loosies bust out early or get a large stack and make it, and many of the tighties survive to the end but get blinded away. I feel like a large number of these players simply do not adjust their play to fit the rapidly escalating structure of the tournament. Anyway I have literally stolen MANY of these tourneys, and was wondering if others follow a similar gear changing strategy.
My general thoughts on the subject are to play very tightly at first and only risk major amounts of chips while the blinds are "small" on relatively certain situations. Usually my experience is that there are at least 3-5 idiots who will gamble it up real early, and if you are fortunate enough to get the cards agaisnt them it works out great.
Once the blinds get up to like 100-200 I begin to play very aggressively and steal many blinds/pots. This seems to work well because if I havent been getting many cards players tend to respect the fact that Im betting all in all of the sudden. I think there are a large percentage of players who play too loosely early (obviously), but I also think there are a great deal of tight players who fail to properly adjust to the SKYROCKETING size of the blinds compared to stack sizes. Most of the time the loosies bust out early or get a large stack and make it, and many of the tighties survive to the end but get blinded away. I feel like a large number of these players simply do not adjust their play to fit the rapidly escalating structure of the tournament. Anyway I have literally stolen MANY of these tourneys, and was wondering if others follow a similar gear changing strategy.